عتر

عِتْرَةٌ ذ The stem, or stock, of a tree: on the authority of Aboo-Sa'eed and IAar: (TA:) and the branches of a tree. (A, TA.) ― -b2- [And hence,] (assumed tropical:) The people, or tribe, of a man, consisting of his nearer relations, (A'Obeyd, ISk, S, A, O, Msb, K,) both the dead and the living: (S, K:) or his relations: (Msb:) or his relations consisting of his offspring and his paternal uncle's sons: (A:) or his relations consisting of his offspring and of others: (TA:) or the more distinguished of one's relations: (IAth, TA:) or the people of a man's house, the more near and more distant: (O, TA:) and a man's offspring, or progeny; (IAar, Th, Az, S, O, Msb, K;) which is said to be the only meaning of the word known to the Arabs; (Msb;) or imagined by the vulgar to be its meaning peculiarly. (TA.) عِتْرَةُ النَّبِىِّ means [ The nearer portion of the tribe of the Prophet, consisting of ] the sons of 'Abd-El-Mut- talib: (Aboo-Sa'eed, O:) or 'Abd-El-Muttalib and his sons: (TA:) or the offspring of Fátimeh: (IAar, TA:) or the nearer members of the house of the Prophet, consisting of his own offspring and of 'Alee and his offspring: or the nearer and the more distant in relationship of the house of the Prophet: or, as is commonly held, the people of the house of the Prophet; who are those from whom it is forbidden to exact the poor-rate, and those to whom is assigned the fifth of the fifth mentioned in the Soorat el-Anfál [the eighth chapter of the Kur-án, verse 42]. (TA.) -A2- Also n. un. of عِتْرٌ [q. v.]. (S, O.)